Teaching category: 65474 books
Schooling Learning Teaching
Toward Narrative Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Schooling Learning Teaching: Toward Narrative Pedagogy calls forth ways of thinking the issues of schooling, learning, and teaching. The task of this book is to plumb this triad as a phenomenological relationship that emerges as an intra rather than an inter. Do conventional pedagogies favor preparing...
by William Van Zyl
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Abstract:
Peer Learning (PL), Peer-to-Peer collaboration (P2P), and Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) are very useful learning techniques in the classroom to promote teaching and learning. However, there are some disadvantages. In this paper, the disadvantages will be discussed in a general context,...
Literacy for Learning
A Handbook of Content-Area Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Literacy for Learning: A Handbook of Teaching Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers is a collection of proven, effective teaching strategies to promote content area literacy and help teachers incorporate literacy learning as a means of improving learning in all subject areas. The book presents...
by Bob Gillen, Lynn Gillen
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
The second edition of Understanding Digital Storytelling: Teaching Filmmaking offers you, the media production teacher, all the benefits of the first edition:
A semester-long program with 12 teaching unitsA guide to help you learn the required technology Information on cameras, gear and accessoriesSyllabus...
Teaching in the Flat World
Learning from High-Performing Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teaching in the Flat World will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States.The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches...
Never Give Up
An Experienced Teacher Overcomes Obstacles to Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Never Give Up is an amazing true story. It is a case study of an experienced elementary school teacher who was motivated to change her teaching practices from teachercentered, transmission approaches to studentcentered, transformational approaches in the context of a Professional Development School....
informal Teaching and Learning
A Study of Everyday Cognition in A Greek Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Based on an ethnographic study conducted in a Greek community, this book celebrates the small ways people teach and learn while they are engaged in other, supposedly more important, activities. By examining the intricate ways in which knowledge and skills of everyday life are transmitted, it shows...
Beyond the Culture Tours
Studies in Teaching and Learning With Culturally Diverse Texts
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
In calling this book Beyond the Culture Tours, the authors bring the reader's attention to a set of issues in the teaching of literature and culture. The Culture Tour is an old concept in the West, dating back to the seventeenth century. The educated young man -- it was an exclusively male project...
Teaching and Learning about Climate Change
A Framework for Educators
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Responding to the issues and challenges of teaching and learning about climate change from a science education-based perspective, this book is designed to serve as an aid for educators as they strive to incorporate the topic into their classes. The unique discussion of these issues is drawn from the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Many can now conclude that utilizing educational technologies can be considered the primary tools to inspire students to learn. Combining these technologies with the best teaching and learning practices can engage in creativity and imagination in the engineering field. Using Technology Tools to Innovate...
Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century
A Guide to Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
This edited collection offers undergraduate Literature instructors a guide to the pedagogy and teaching of Victorian literature in liberal arts classrooms. With numerous essays focused on thematic course design, this volume reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the literature classroom....
Aspects of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools
Perspectives on Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This textbook heads the Open University's flexible PGCE Perspectives on Practice series, which provides a practical illustration of skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach in the secondary classroom. As well as describing concepts and ideas, the book provides a critical examination of...
by Angela Calabrese Barton, Jason L. Ermer, Tanahia A. Burkett-Benton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How might science education reflect the values of a socially just and democratic society? How do urban youth living in poverty construct science in their lives in ways that are enriching, empowering, and transformative? Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume:
Offers...
Using the Visual Arts for Cross-curricular Teaching and Learning
Imaginative ideas for the primary school
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
As schools are being encouraged to develop more flexible and creative approaches to education, Using the Visual Arts for Cross-curricular Teaching and Learning provides practical guidance and ideas on using the visual arts as a starting point for imaginative, effective learning across a wide range...